@rander3127: "<url>
Especially this attribute:
Sony's Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO) function has been updated on this
model so users can choose the desired level of detail recovered in
areas of shadow. The advanced mode offers the option of five levels of
user selectable correction. Additionally, DRO bracketing creates three
images from a single capture with three different levels of DRO."
    @gdunn: "<quote>
Are these three images stored separately on the memory card, or are 
these three images available internally for display only?
jer
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    @waterfoot: "On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:14:00 -0700, acl
<quote>
Surprisingly it's not. Magnesium alloy no less.
John Bean"
    @achilleaslazarides: "<quote>
Hmm, that rather ruins the joke! But here
<url>
it says: Aluminum chassis, Magnesium Alloy body shell, high grade
plastic exterior, Environmental seals"
    @waterfoot: "On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:33:49 -0700, acl
<quote>
Yes, of course bits of the covering are plastic (or rubber,
or paint) but the shell itself is metal rather than plastic
over a metal chassis as in many other cameras.
John Bean"
    @achilleaslazarides: "<quote>
Oh I see, so Sony is merely being honest, unlike eg Nikon who never
say "Magnesium alloy body shell, rubber and paint exterior". Or like
the 7D which isn't plastic! (it's a great camera, by the way, and I
wouldn't mind it being plastic if I was shopping for a dslr when it
came out).
Thanks for informing me!"
    @waterfoot: "On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:18:24 -0700, acl
<quote>
I haven't got the faintest idea what you're banging on
about. The body shell is mag. alloy and not plastic, plainly
stated in the spec. The rest of the camera is made of other
stuff (including plastic of course), but the body is what we
were talking about... yes?
You're welcome... I think ;-)
John Bean"
    @rander3127: "<quote>
Seems that Sony, Canon, etc., will be relegating plastic to the bottom-
rung cameras (as they should) and reserving magnesium and it's
superiority for the prosumer and PRO cameras.
All is right with the World, except for the plastic entry level."
    @iconmags3: "<quote>
Easy enough. There is an inner aluminium (duralumin type) chassis, into 
which a polycarbonate block fits which holds many components and 
insulates them. This inner skeleton also holds the lens mount itself. On 
the front and top, mag alloy shells are bolted together. The front shell 
has a ring which gasket-seals round the lens mount, and extends it with 
a flush additional ring of polished mag alloy. This is like making the 
mount flange bigger, but the lens mount is being cradled and supported 
all round by the mag alloy shell, and some lenses may one day flange-up 
to the two together - putting the load on the shell, not the bayonet 
assembly.
A thin hard plastic skin is fitted to the mag alloy (it is actually 
screwed not glued, so it can be removed) and this goes outside the mag 
alloy outer lens mount. The overall design seals the lens mount very 
effectively.
David
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    @alanbrowne: "<quote>
Except that those three are prob'y JPG and not RAW.  Might as well do 
this post process instead of taking up memory.
We'll see in time.
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